[Python-ideas] change list() - branch from "More useful slices"

[Eugene Toder]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> max() and min() do behave like this - they accept either a single
>> iterable, or *args - so it's not unprecedented. But I don't see any benefit
>> to adding it to the list() constructor.
>>
>
> Because the maximum/minimum of a single value makes absolutely no sense,
> but a single-element list does.
>
Arguably, min and max of a single value is that same value. This is what
min() and max() return when you pass them a 1-element sequence.

Eugene
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